On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 22:44:45 UTC, Ola Fosheim
Grøstad wrote:
On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 22:28:08 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
For example, people often realize that the ; statement
terminator is redundant, so they propose removing it. In
trying it, however, it soon becomes clear that error message
clarity, recovery, and the correct identification of the
location of the error degrades substantially.
That explains why new languages make ";" optional, or wait...
Could it be that the language designers of new languages have
realized that using ";" for discrimination on line endings is
fragile and tedious. Could it be that new languages define
grammars that are more robust than the one used by C? Like Go?
Counter example: Rust. Of course, Rust isn't the epitome of
readability.
Or to put it succinctly: If legibility is dependent on a little
fly shit on the screen, then the language design sure isn't
optimal.
